Publications
Preprint Publications
Christian Hoffmann*, Kiersten M. Ruff*, Irina Edu, Min Kyung Shinn, Johannes Tromm, Matthew R. King, Avnika Pant, Hannes Ausserwoeger, Jennifer Morgan, Thomas Knowles, Rohit V. Pappu, and Dragomir Milovanovic. Driving Forces for Condensation of Synapsin Are Governed by Sequence-Encoded Molecular Grammars. bioRxiv 2024 *co-first authors In revision at JMB
Xiao Guo*, Mina Farag*, Naixin Qian, Xia Yu, Anton Ni, Yuefeng Ma, Wen Yu, Matthew R. King, Vicky Liu, Joonho Lee, Richard N. Zare, Wei Min, Rohit V. Pappu, and Yifan Dai. Biomolecular Condensates Can Function as Inherent Catalysts. bioRxiv 2024. In revision at Cell *co-first authors
2024
Tingting Wu*, Matthew R. King*, Yuanxin Qiu, Mina Farag, Rohit V. Pappu, and Matthew D. Lew. Single Fluorogen Imaging Reveals Spatial Inhomogeneities within Biomolecular Condensates. bioRxiv 2024. Accepted at Nature Physics *co-first authors
Sean Wang^, Rohit Gupta, Ananya Benegal, Anushree Seth, Michael Vahey, Rajan Chakrabarty, Rohit Pappu, and Srikanth Singamaneni, Joseph Puthussery^, and Matthew R. King^ A High-Avidity, Thermostable, and Low-Cost Synthetic Capture for Ultrasensitive Detection and Quantification of Viral Antigens and Aerosols. ^co-corresponding authors. ACS Sensors 2024.
Matthew R. King, Kiersten M. Ruff, Andrew Z. Lin, Avnika Pant, Mina Farag, Tingting Wu, Wei Ouyang, Matin Fossat, Matthew D. Lew, Michael D. Vahey, Emma Lundberg, and Rohit V. Pappu. Macromolecular condensation organizes nucleolar sub-phases to set up a pH gradient. Cell 2024.
Matthew R. King, Kiersten M. Ruff, and Rohit V. Pappu. Emergent microenvironments of nucleoli. Nucleus 2024.
2023
Andrew Z. Lin*, Kiersten M. Ruff*, Furqan Dar*, Ameya Jalihal, Matthew R. King, Jared M. Lalmansingh, Ammon E. Posey, Nadia A. Erkamp, Ian Seim, Amy S. Gladfelter, and Rohit V. Pappu. Dynamical Control Enables the Formation of Demixed Biomolecular Condensates. Nature Communications 2023. *co-first authors
Aidan J. Flynn, Kari Miller, Jennette M. Codjoe, Matthew R. King, and Elizabeth S. Haswell. Mechanosensitive Ion Channels MSL8, MSL9, and MSL10 Have Environmentally Sensitive Intrinsically Disordered Regions with Distinct Biophysical Characteristics in Vitro. Plant Direct 2023
Sagar U. Setru*, Bernardo Gouveia*, Matthew R. King, Aaron Hamlin, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Howard A. Stone, and Sabine Petry. Acentrosomal spindles assemble from branching microtubule nucleation near chromosomes. Nature Communications 2023. *co-first authors
Jodi Kraus*, Sophie M. Travis*, Matthew R. King, and Sabine Petry. Augmin is a Ran-regulated spindle assembly factor. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2023. *co-first authors
2022
Renu Maan*, Louis Reese*, Vladimir A. Volkov*, Matthew R. King, Eli van der Sluis, Nemo Andrea, Wiel Evers, Arjen J. Jakobi, and Marileen Dogterom. Multivalent Interactions Facilitate Motor-Dependent Protein Accumulation at Growing Microtubule plus Ends. Nature Cell Biology. 2022. *co-first authors
2021
Mohammad S. Safari*, Matthew R. King*, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Sabine Petry. Interaction of spindle assembly factor TPX2 with importins-α/β inhibits protein phase separation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2021. *co-first authors
2020
Matthew R. King and Sabine Petry. Phase separation of TPX2 enhances and spatially coordinates microtubule nucleation. Nature Communications. 2020.
2018
Jae-Geun Song, Matthew R. King, Rui Zhang, Rachel Kadzik, Akanksha Thawani, and Sabine Petry. Mechanism of how Augmin directly targets the γ-tubulin ring complex to microtubules. Journal of Cell Biology. 2018.
2016
Matthew King and Sabine Petry. Visualization and analysis of branching microtubule nucleation using meiotic Xenopus Egg extracts and TIRF microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology: “The Mitotic Spindle.” 2016.
2014
Matthew R. King, Leah Matzat, Ryan P. Dale, Su Jun Lim, and Elissa P Lei. The RNA-binding protein Rumpelstiltskin antagonizes gypsy chromatin insulator function in a tissue-specific manner. Journal of Cell Science. 2014.